Car-fender.



0.- A. BISBEE. GAR FENDER.

APPLIQATION'TILED NOV. 18, 1907. RENEWED-JAN. 13, 1909. 918,268.

Patented Apr, 13,-1909.

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Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

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UNTTED dTArElhB OHAUNOEY A. BISBEE, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 13, 1909.

Application filed. November 18, 1907, Serial No. 402,705. RenewedJanuary 13, 1909. Serial No. 72,130.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHAUNCEY A. Bremen, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CanFenders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is the provision of a. car-fender whichwill he yieldinglv held at a short distance above the track and which inan emergency can be readily lowered into juxtaposition therewith bydevices under the control of and conveniently actuated by an operator.The advan tages accruing from such functions are especially valuable inrailway systems at places where the grades are uneven and where it isimpracticable to ordinarily carry a fender at its most efiectiveposition for effecting the saving of human life.

The invention consists in the novel construction, adaptation andcombination of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is aside elevation of an embodiment of my invention shownattached to the front of a car and illustrating the fender in its normalposition; Fig. 2 is a similar view with the fender in its inoperativeposition; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front elevation with the parts in thecondition in which they are represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 4e is a planview, partly in section, of the yielding rear sup port for the fender.Figs. 5 and 6 are de' tail views.

In these drawings, the reference numeral 10, indicates the track-surfaceof a railway line and 11 the front platform of a car. Rig-idly securedto the forward end of said platform and in proximity to each of itssides is a hinge element 12 for a rectangular-shaped frame of the upperfender partwhich is comprised of side members 14: and transverse members15 and 15 of which the latter, 15, protrudes outside of the members letand adords pivots whereby the frame is fnlcrumed to said hinge elements.The lower portions of the members 1% are each formed with a longitudinalslot let which is provided at its lower extremity with an angular bend,to provide a recess or seat 1%, as best shown in Fig. 5. Seated withinsaid slots is a transversely arranged bar 16 at the rear of the frame ofthe lower fender part, or fender, as it will be denominated in thefollowing description. This fender is formed, in addition to the bar 16,of a front transverse bar-mom "er 16 and side members 16 which extendrearwardly of the bar 16 to furnish arms 16. Such arms are piv0t allyconn cted at 17 with the offset extremities of a rock-shaft 18 which isjournaled in hangers 19 dependiu g from the car-platform. Centrally ofits length shaft 18 is provided with a rearwardly extending arm 18. Alever 20 fulcrumed to links 21 operatively connects the shaft arm 18with the bottom of a tread rod 22 which extends through the car platformto be within convenient reach of the motormans foot.

23 represents one of a pair of brackets depending from the car and inthe longitudinal planes with the respective members l i. A rod extendsthrough an aperture 28 of each such bracket and is provided with aforked end 2a, or an eye, inclosing the re spective member let.Referring particularly to Fig. i, a tube 25 inclo'ses the rod 2% from apin 26 extending through the rod to some distance beyond the bracket,and to permit a longitudinal play of another pin 26 which is also fixedto the rod, are provided slots 25 in the tube and notches 23 extendingfrom the aperture in the bracket. The

tube is notched, as at 25", to accommodate a split-ring 27 serving torestrain a washer 28 whose office is through interference to prevent thewithdrawal of the tube from the bracket. Notches 25 are providedadjacent of the other end of the tube for a splitring 28 to make a stopfor another washer 22 carried by the tube. Between the last named washerand a washer 30, which intermittently bears againstthe bracket and thepin 26, is a coil-spring 31.

The frame-member 15 is desirably made tubular and through it extends arod carrying upon its ends hooks, such as 82, which serve to engage overthe barme1nbcr 16 when the fender is tilted up into the position inwhich it is represented by broken lines in Fig. 1, as would be done withthe fender at the rear end of a car and also with the one at the frontend when housed in the car-barn.

A chain 33, indicated diagrammatically is to normal.

in Figs. 1 and 2, would be employed to limit the amount of depressionwhich be given to the forward end of the fender.

34 represents rollers carried by the barmember 16 to make engagementwith the track surface.

35 represents flexible rods employed upon the fender and extend from atransverse rod 35 near the front thereof to rod 35 extending between thearms 16. 36 are similar rods connected with the member 15 of one frameand the member 16 of the other.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The upper of the twoframes being supported by its member 15 from hinge elements 12 istiltably maintained in the position in which it is represented in Fig. lby the action of the coiled springs 31. The lower frame, or fenderproper, being supported by the side members 14. of the other frame, willaccordingly be held in its normal position, shown by full lines in thisview, by reason of the fender arms 16 being connected with the arms 18of the shaft 18 which is journaled in stationary hangers 19. When,however, suflicient pressure is exerted by the motorman upon the treadrod 22 to overcome the force of the springs and impart a rearward swingto the shaft arms 18, the latter drags the fender therewith andcoincidently, by reason of the are taken by their connection 17, tiltssuch arms upwardly and the forward end of the fender downwardly aboutthe bar 16 by which it is supported from the upper frame members 14 andwhich is supplemented by the rearward swing of these members, and thusbring the fender and the actuating parts in the relation in which theyare illustrated in Fig. 2. When the foot tread is released the springsreassert their power and return the apparatus to appear as in Fig. 1,that When the fender is in either of the positions represented, orintermediately of the same, the cross bar 16 of the fender frame isseated in the offset portions 14 of the slots 14 whereby it ismaintained against accidental displacement and is retracted only by aforward pull upon the fender by an attendant when the fender is to beswung up to be as shown by broken lines in Fig. 1.

The springs 31 in addition to serving in the capacity above referred to,namely, returning the fender to normal position, likewise act toyielding allow the fender being tilted downwardly irrespective of thevolition of the motorman, as for example, when the fender encounters anobstacle in its path. Such double action of the springs is accomplishedby the employment of the various devices illustrated in Fig. 4- andwhich operates thus: When the rod 2% is pushed rearwardly, inmanipulating the fender to lower i l t l l i I l l washer 29 upon thetube 25 which, because 7 of the pin 26, accompanies the rod and slidessome distance through the bracket. The reverse action, namely, thecapacity to resist an opposite force, is attained through the pin 26 ofthe rod 2a; being free to slide in the tube slots 25 admitting movementin a reverse direction of the rod independently of the tube while thespring yields to the advance of the washer 30.

What I claim as my invention, is

1. In apparatus of the class described, the combination of an upperfender part tiltably connected with a car, a lower fender part fulcrumedto theother part and extending forwardly therefrom, a transverselydisposed shaft having crank arms which engage with arms protrudingrearwardly from the lower fender part, an arm intermediate the length ofsaid shaft, a tread-bar, hangers to afi'ord stationary bearing for saidshaft, a fixed bracket, a rod connected with said lower fender part, anda spring upon said rod tending to maintain the lower fender part ininoperative condition.

2. In apparatus of the class described, the combination with a fenderarranged for movement, and a fixed bracket, of a slotted tube passingthrough an aperture in the bracket, a rod extending through the tube andhaving one of its ends connected to the fender, means upon the rod forlimiting the movement of the tube in one direction with respect to therod, a washer carried by the tube in proximity of its forward end, awasher loosely fitted upon the tube, a spring interposed between the twoaforesaid washers, a third washer upon the tube, means for limiting themovement of the first and third named washers, and a pin extendingthrough the rod and the slots of the tube and disposed intermediate thesecond and third named washers.

A car fender comprising an upper fender part tiltably connected with acar and a lower fender part fulcrumed to the upper fender part andextending forwardly therefrom, rearwardly extending arms carried by thelower fender part, hangers carried by said car, a rock shaft journaledin said hangers having crank arms on its ends engaging with therearwardly extending arms of said lower fender part, a rod connected atits forward end with said lower fender part, a bracket carried by thecar' through which the rear end of said rod extends, and a spring onsaid rod between the bracketand a collar located on said rod ad- 7jacent the forward end thereof.

4:. In a car fender the combination with a tlltably connected therewith,

car, of a fender a fixed bracket carried'by the car, a slotted tubepassed through an aperture in the Signed at Seattle WVashington, in thebracket, a rod extending through an aperpreeence of two Witnesses.

ture in the bracket, a rod extendin through T said tube and having itsforward end con- CHAIR CEY BISBEE' nested With the fender, and means onsaid Witnesses: rod for limiting the movement of the tube in HORACEBARNES, one direction With respect to the rocL l PIERRE BARNES.

